Nicholas Bena
Rittman OH
Summary
Ambitious and detail-oriented, I always do my best to improve and embrace challenges. Dedicated, loyal, plays well with others, and can accomplish tasks alone if required. I love to learn and push myself constantly, and I grew up building and working with computers, so Cybersecurity was a natural path for me. I am pursuing a bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity and should graduate by June of 2025 or sooner. My current job is heavy in service sales and communication with colleagues and the general public. I have strong social skills and can communicate big problems in a simple way to anyone; I am always in a good mood and have a great sense of humor, but I am also serious and passionate about Cybersecurity. The world can always use more good guys.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Service Advisor
Ken Ganley Nissan
10.2016 - Current
- Provided excellent customer service to dealership clients by promptly addressing their service needs and concerns.
- Recommended and sold maintenance services and repairs based on vehicle manufacturer guidelines and customer's driving habits.
- Scheduled service appointments, coordinated with technicians, and ensured timely completion of repairs.
- Utilized strong communication skills to explain technical information to customers in a clear and understandable manner.
- Maintained accurate records of service history, invoices, and warranty information for each customer vehicle.
- Award winning in service sales, and customer relations for 8 years consecutive.
- Responsible for training new hires to assure they're performing the job correctly; this includes management training as well.
Security Exercises
Dion Training Labs
02.2024 - Current
- Reviewing IoCs and threat intelligence sources/performing IoC detection and analysis, threat hunting, analyzing malicious files, analyzing lateral movement, and pivoting IoCs, performing and detecting privilege escalation.
- Using various tools used by both red/blue teams such as Wireshark, Splunk, IDA, Metasploit, Nmap, Autopsy, FTK Imager, Burpsuite and many more.
- Configuring and analyzing SEIMs, Vulnerability scanners, configuring Centralized Logging, analyzing cloud vulnerabilities, and configuring automation.
- Analyzing logs of real-world attacks performed against DVWA utilizing a LAMP system for review, Performing Post-Incident Forensic Analysis and Root Cause Analysis. Performing Playbook Incident Response.
- Performing and detecting attacks such as Directory Traversal and Command Injection, LFI/RFI, Cross-site Scripting, SQL Injection, Cross-site Request Forgery.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity
Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT06-2025
High School Diploma -
Keystone High School
LaGrange06-2008
Skills
- Threat Hunting
- Network Security
- Security Analysis
- Digital Forensics
- Incident Response
- Management
- Python
- Linux
- Troubleshooting
Certification
CompTIA CySA+ May 2024
CompTIA Security+ February 2024
CompTIA Network+ July 2023
CompTIA A+ February 2025
CompTIA Project+ April 2025
Linux LPI March 2025
Timeline
Security Exercises
Dion Training Labs
02.2024 - Current
Service Advisor
Ken Ganley Nissan
10.2016 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Cybersecurity
Western Governors University
High School Diploma -
Keystone High School
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